Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1990, 12:44 PM CDT for Logan County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1990, 12:44 PM CDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1990, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 329 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSM 261745 SVRFSM ARC083-261845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 1244 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST ARKANSAS ...LOGAN COUNTY AT 1243 FORT SMITH RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY SOUTH SOUTHWEST INTO WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE0 LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 10:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1030 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990
ATTN SELS...REPORTS FOR THIS MORNING, 5/26/90
TIME/CDT COUNTY EVENT
558 AM OSAGE DIME SIZE HAIL AT FAIRFAX
635 AM PAWNEE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT RALSTON
730 AM OSAGE DIME SIZE HAIL AT PAWHUSKA
825 AM OSAGE DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF BARTLESVILLE
825 AM WASHINGTON DIME SIZE HAIL AT BARTLESVILLE
837 AM W\ASHINGTON WIDESPREAD GOLFBALL SIZE AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL
AT BARTLESVILLE
905 AM WASHINGTON DIME SIZE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN BARTLESVILLE
920 AM NOWATA DIME SIZE HAIL AT NOWATAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 57 min |
| May 26, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 60 min |
| May 26, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 67 min |
| May 26, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 63 min |
| May 26, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 55 min |
| May 26, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Logan, Scott | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.